Critique and Experts needed!
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www.pixelsensei.com/ (http://www.pixelsensei.com/)
Tell me what you think of the design. For bandwidth purposes, I didn't include some crazy flashy intro, since the interface itself sucks up a lot of space. Now focus on the following:
* Is it too painfully large to download?
* Is the menu too hard to figure out?
* Does the animation get stuck sometimes (and does the clear button help "restart" the thing?
* Mac users: is the site properly loading and playing for you guys?
And now, here's my problem. Toggle Portfolio section (left-most orange button thingy) and click on either the Photoshop button (Graphire tablet icon) or the Web button (mouse and pad icon). Click the Launch button and a scrolling menu will appear. I've been trying to make the skewed scrollbar work properly and I have found no solution. If you click on the scrollarrow thingy, you might notice that the scrollarrow tries to jump back at it's original Y position. I tried to make this less obvious by adding a mask to the layer that contains the button (so it simply disappears instead of obviously jumping up and down). You can totally tell it's jumping when you scroll it to the right just a smidge. All the stuff moves by multiplying the _x or _y of each with the scrollvalue determined by the following code:
scrollvalue = Number(slider:_x)/trackWidth;
slider = label of the scrollarrow thing and track Width = the width is how much to the right I want it to move.
You still with me? Sorry it's sounds crazy - but the jumping up and down thingy is driving me moreso over the wall. First of all, is the jumping arrow very obvious and annoying? Anyone know how to fix this, successfully attempted a non-conventional scrollbar, or know of a tutorial to point me out to?
Thanks for the time and patience guys. If you can't answer any of the complicated stuff, just let me know, overall, what you think of the site.
That was before I found kirupa's site actually. Small digital world; I didn't know that was you. :)
I like the style of the main site. I feel like I am inside iconfactory. :)
Great stuff, Renni!
Now if only I could find a girlfriend in Houston that did Flash. Heck, I'd be happy with a girlfriend that even knew what Flash was. :P
t2d
But there are a couple of things that are not as good as it used to be :
the scrolbar, I don't like the design. It used to be so cute, now this blue scrollbar really clashes with the rest (my opinion)
the conveyor belt animation isn't as smooth as it used to be. I don't know what's causing this (maybe the fact that you're using scripts now ?) but it was better...
It's still very good looking, but not as good.
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Hopefully it is not too late for me!!!!!
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I managed to fix the nasty side scroller snag. Now for some reason, the loading text animation won't show up!! As old problems are solved, new ones seem to be cropping up...
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The carpet (or conveyor belt) isn't actually rolling, but the little dashes move along to make it look like it's rolling. That's accomplished with a simple motion tween with a guide so that it hugs the belt's surface. Add a couple of rolling wheels and the effect is accomplished!
And ofcourse, the thing rolls on command using the "tellTarget" function.
RenniGi, will you tell me some day how you did that rolling carpet thing ???
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Yes, I am actually having problems with the text thing (you'll see above that I posted it). The text took a while to load so I added a "Loading Text" anim (to check if the text variables are empty), but it won't show up for some reason. I have been trying to fix it, on and off, or weeks!
I'm on cable (finally), so download times are no issue..
I LOVE the site, ponystuff too, really really nice!!
There is indeed a pb on your scroll-arrow thingy, if you try'n move it fast enough, it s'times even disappears! It seems to flicker..not really anoying though..hard to tell what's wrong without a look at the fla..
Menu system is cool, simple as can be (if you're used to other flash sites at least..)
Like it! Different, nice design, great colors, no bloody pop-up, in a word, great work!
thanx again
Ebu
Also, what about the sounds? This is my first time using sounds.
Does it sound ok? I'm not too crazy about the sound I chose for the conveyor belt, but it was the best one I could find that wasn't a really enormous file.
As far as the belt anim - I'll try to tweek the code to get it to run more smoothly. That's the nice thing about having it scripted - I just have to adjust the speed variable!
[EDIT] Ok Ily, I just changed the scrollers to orange - does that make it any better? Do you still think I should revert back to the old text console? I also updated the scroller for the guestbook entries - is that scroller better?
It's a roughly photoshopped body... there's a story about it and you can read it here: My Date with Rengirl (http://www.dammitalltohell.com/victory/2001_08_26_archives.php#5403026)
I really liked your site. It was fresh and well done. the download wasn't bad at all with a 56K here. The inside was just refreshingly different. Very nice!
Phil
BTW, I have to ask you, is your body really that tiny? Or is it a morphed image?
I mean, if it's that tiny, I am not trying to make you pheel bad or anything or self conscience, but I am curious, ya know?
Also, I added a "Loading Text" animation while the .txt files are loading into the textboxes. I just hated it when it would go blank because it was taking its dear sweet time to load...
would'nt you say that one noticing the lack of sound draws attention to the fact that it may be worthwhile to add it to your site?
I think forgetting sound in flash is akin to using straight bitmap grapics...it defeats the purpose.
I'll try after that.
Thanks
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I have to get that conveyor belt ( rolling carpet sounds better) to work !! This is making me crazysensei !!
www.flashkit.com/tutorial...ndex.shtml (http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Interactivity/Actionsc-Patrick_-640/index.shtml)
Nice site.. reading on that angle was kinda weird though.
keep up the good work
by any chance can u guide me as to how can i get the text scroller with the scroll bar can u guide me to some tutorial i am in need of that very badly
Ebu
And I hadn't seen the little cloud animation the first time... Very nice. I really wonder how you got that 3 dimensional effect (and also that ever mysterious conveyor belt....)
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Hey, you know what ? I'm building a site right now, so you'll be able to tell me everything that's wrong with it, all right ? You'll be my Senseď...
pub40.ezboard.com/fkirupa...=444.topic (http://pub40.ezboard.com/fkirupafrm19.showMessage?topicID=444.topic)
I explain my problem a little bit better...
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